So, in your experience, what went wrong in the Macs? - Page 5

Darshan · #33 February 4th, 2007, 02:05 PM

I'd say that overall Apple quality control has been sliding since they moved operations to the Chinese mainland from Taiwan a few years ago.
Workers in China are most often horribly and mercilessly exploited, with pathetically meager wages -very long workdays in nasty, high pressure environments - crowded, unhealthy and expensive living conditions - health care unavailable/unaffordable for hundreds of millions - and no union protection.

Can one really expect quality work from people living/working under those conditions?
No doubt, most of Apple's management and CEOs, many with their multi-million dollar mansions, private jets and gold plated perks care little about their workers in China.
Out of the billion and a quarter people living in China, only a very small percentage are benefiting from China's economic boom.
It's not only Apple, of course, that's screwing the Chinese people(with the Chinese government's blessing, of course) and profiting mightily. Thousands of companies, worldwide, including China's own, are doing it.

sirstaunch · #34 February 4th, 2007, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Sunnz

AFAIK there are no Apple Stores in Australia... only resellers... I guess it is similar in NZ?

In my town in Victoria AU, there is a resller who once had an Apple repair man and couldn't afford to keep him on, saying the upgrades made it expensive for them to keep training him

Sunnz · #35 February 4th, 2007, 09:35 PM

What upgrades?

sirstaunch · #36 February 4th, 2007, 11:30 PM

Like the hardware upgrades and such, the changes in different types of Macs, from the old 604e processors to the G5 and now the inTel. They needed to pay their Apple service man to be updated to keep his licence, and it was to expensive for them.

irfaan · #37 February 5th, 2007, 05:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Captain Code

AFAIK they've fixed the yellowing Macbooks by replacing the palm rest with different material. And you can get yours fixed for free by Apple.

Is there any way to know if a macbook has the new material in it or not (if you bought it late, as in Aug of last year, did they start using the new material)?

**fryke** · #38 February 5th, 2007, 10:48 AM

They corrected the material relatively early, and the yellowing started about a month after buying one, so I'd say you're safe if it's not yellow yet.

Yesurbius · #39 February 5th, 2007, 12:45 PM

You guys in Australia and NZ are lucky. Word is, the situation in Greece and Poland are very bad. A single company has the license from the government to import Apples - and no other can get a license. Apple doesn't (or maybe can't) setup shop in the countries - so everything is at the mercy of these middlemen who really foul things up.

http://digg.com/apple/We_Want_Apple_Greece

Sunnz · #40 February 5th, 2007, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by sirstaunch

Like the hardware upgrades and such, the changes in different types of Macs, from the old 604e processors to the G5 and now the inTel. They needed to pay their Apple service man to be updated to keep his licence, and it was to expensive for them.

Ohh so every time Apple releases an upgrade they have to "upgrade" the Apple repair man as well?